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Modeling and Measuring Competencies in Higher Education

Approaches to Challenges in Higher Education Policy and Practice

  • Well-structured overview of studies and methods

  • Summary of research results of the KoKoHos program in English

  • Includes project descriptions, study designs and research fields

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VII
  2. Competency Orientation in Higher Education

    • Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Hans Anand Pant, Corinna Lautenbach, Dimitar Molerov, Miriam Toepper, Sebastian Brückner
    Pages 1-5
  3. An Overview of Assessment Practices

    • Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Hans Anand Pant, Corinna Lautenbach, Dimitar Molerov, Miriam Toepper, Sebastian Brückner
    Pages 7-19
  4. Modeling and Measuring Competencies in Germany

    • Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Hans Anand Pant, Corinna Lautenbach, Dimitar Molerov, Miriam Toepper, Sebastian Brückner
    Pages 21-26
  5. Demands in Higher Education

    • Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Hans Anand Pant, Corinna Lautenbach, Dimitar Molerov, Miriam Toepper, Sebastian Brückner
    Pages 27-58
  6. Development Perspectives for Higher Education Research and Practice

    • Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Hans Anand Pant, Corinna Lautenbach, Dimitar Molerov, Miriam Toepper, Sebastian Brückner
    Pages 59-62
  7. Conclusion and Outlook

    • Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Hans Anand Pant, Corinna Lautenbach, Dimitar Molerov, Miriam Toepper, Sebastian Brückner
    Pages 63-64
  8. An Overview of KoKoHs Projects, Models, and Instruments

    • Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Hans Anand Pant, Corinna Lautenbach, Dimitar Molerov, Miriam Toepper, Sebastian Brückner
    Pages 65-77
  9. Validation and Applications of KoKoHs Assessments

    • Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Hans Anand Pant, Corinna Lautenbach, Dimitar Molerov, Miriam Toepper, Sebastian Brückner
    Pages 79-85
  10. Publication of KoKoHs Projects

    • Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Hans Anand Pant, Corinna Lautenbach, Dimitar Molerov, Miriam Toepper, Sebastian Brückner
    Pages 87-107
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 109-127

About this book

This publication focuses on competency orientation in higher education, illustrating international assessment practices for measuring student learning outcomes. For Germany, the Modeling and Measuring Competencies in Higher Education (KoKoHs) research program contributes exemplary approaches, and solutions to current challenges in higher education. KoKoHs models and tests can be used for entrance examination, formative and summative assessment of domain-specific and generic competencies and as a basis for developing new teaching-and-learning tools and formats promoting these competencies.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftspädagogik, Johannes Gutenberg-Univ Mainz Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftspädagogik, Mainz, Germany

    Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia

  • Inst Erziehungswissenschaften, Humboldt-Univ Berlin Inst Erziehungswissenschaften, Berlin, Germany

    Hans Anand Pant

  • Inst Erziehungswissenschaften, Humboldt-Univ Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Corinna Lautenbach

  • Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft, Humboldt Universität Berlin Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft, Berlin, Germany

    Dimitar Molerov

  • Lehrstuhl Wirtschaftspädagogik, Johannes Gutenberg-Univ Mainz Lehrstuhl Wirtschaftspädagogik, Mainz, Germany

    Miriam Toepper

  • Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftspädagogik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftspädagogik, Mainz, Germany

    Sebastian Brückner

About the authors

Prof. Dr. Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia is Chair of Business and Economics Education at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.

Prof. Dr. Hans Anand Pant is Chair of Research Methods in Education at Humboldt Universitaet Berlin, Germany.

Corinna Lautenbach and Dimitar Molerov are research assistants in the Department of Education Studies at Humboldt Universitaet Berlin.

Miriam Toepper and Dr. Sebastian Brückner are research assistants in the Department of Business and Economics Education at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Modeling and Measuring Competencies in Higher Education

  • Book Subtitle: Approaches to Challenges in Higher Education Policy and Practice

  • Authors: Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Hans Anand Pant, Corinna Lautenbach, Dimitar Molerov, Miriam Toepper, Sebastian Brückner

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-15486-8

  • Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-15485-1Published: 11 November 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-15486-8Published: 01 November 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 127

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Higher Education, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation

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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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